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Sanity! by Robert Gore

Posted by straightlinelogic 8 years, 6 months ago to Government
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The European powers will try, but the Brexit vote will be much harder to subvert. Command and control, as embodied by the EU and every other supranational governing institution—and every national government—is under mortal stress, doomed by its massive failures and its incompatibility with the demands of human survival. The proponents of staying in the EU weren’t even saying to the British: give us one more chance and we’ll get it right. They were saying: stay with us and we’ll keep doing what we’ve been doing wrong. Who accepts such a manifestly idiotic bargain? The wonder is that the vote was close, but the fear-mongering status quo mounted a ferocious and extraordinarily mendacious campaign.

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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 8 years, 6 months ago
    What has been behind the EU from the start is a one world government movement. That's why the screws have been continually tightened on national and individual exercise of free choice. Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but the flood of regulations and increased centralizing of control by our federal government is also driven by those who dream of a single bureaucracy ruling all of humanity. The Obama administration has been pushing for acquiescence to the United Nations on many fronts, as though it had global governmental authority.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 6 months ago
    To think that all these years the rest of our former countrymen are re-enacting 1776 all over again! Shows more sense that our government has. As for what Hillary or Bernie or Trump think or don't think... countries should learn NOT to trust the US Government anymore.
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  • Posted by wmiranda 8 years, 6 months ago
    The EU is another failed experiment like the Soviet Union, except they tried to sugar coat it. The EU needs to go the way of the failed Soviet Union. Europe should read Atlas Shrug and learn from it. If you want to help anyone (or country), first you must have the self interest to be well yourself before trying to help or run someone else's country. Duh!
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 6 months ago
    "Extraordinarily mendacious." OOH, I'm going to steal that one.
    As usual, R.G. is right on the money. When considering those opposing, one can only think that there may be some motive not readily apparent, since the logic of leaving the EU is as straight lined as is possible. The fact that the Brits never fully immersed themselves in the cesspool that is the EU shows their trepidation from the start. Hopefully they emerged before becoming fully contaminated.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 6 months ago
    Yes...government governs best, just like gravity, that which it governs close.
    Hope they'll regain their own fishing rights off it's own shores...or do they really have to regain anything...it was theirs to begin with...I'd send out the fleet Today!
    Ditto goes for their steel industry; funny, what people or businesses purchase or where it purchases resources has little to do with "trade agreements"...there is nothing stopping me from calling a company in England, Germany or even Russia and purchasing a product. One would only come under scrutiny if you did business with agencies we are at odds with like Iran for instance.
    I'd like to see them just ignore any coerced "Punishment" and go about their business.

    Now, as I just commented on another post...It's our turn to grow a pair.
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  • Posted by dbhalling 8 years, 6 months ago
    What is disappointing is that this vote is being spun as an anti-immigration vote. I have not followed this closely enough to absolutely say that was not why most people voted for this, but I hope it is about what you talk about in your article.
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    • Posted by 8 years, 6 months ago
      Anti-immigration is part of it, but as a facet of overall disgust with the EU, which has made a hash of immigration and the refugee flows from Northern Africa and the Middle East. The EU went along with US interventionism in those areas and the refugees are the predictable consequence. Muslim immigration, already substantial in the UK and much of the rest of the Europe, has increased dramatically, straining budgets and tolerance. Justifiable concerns from native citizens about crime, welfare spending, lack of assimilation, and home grown terrorism have been met with politically correct bromides from the EU and national leaders, notably Angela Merckel. So yes, anti-immigration was one of the motivating factors, but it's impossible to separate how much from generalized revulsion at EU arrogance, centralization of power, and ineptitude.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 8 years, 6 months ago
    Hello straightlinelogic,
    I believe we fought a war to bring power home to the people. Despite the statists' and collectivists' assertions, there is nothing but loss of individual liberty and oppression in centralized power. There is much to be said for sovereignty being kept as close to the individual as possible. I find the concept of compartmentalization and division of power rather than centralization to be of benefit across many disciplines and applications. When one small state fails it does not necessarily destroy its neighbors. When one component of your electrical or mechanical device fails it does not render the entire device irreparable. If however everything is integrated the entire enterprise or device is ready for the scrap heap.

    The same fate awaits us since we have concentrated power and operation in our "federal" government. We have allowed the collectivist, statists to run roughshod over actual federalism and we find ourselves with a national government. Federalism and state's rights are now nothing but a farce, a chimerical fairy tale of old. If we do not reassert these powers and divest DC from its oppressive tendencies, we shall see factions growing and creating dissolution in ways less than peaceful. Our founders warned us of factions and they wrote our founding documents understanding this and allowing for disparate local conditions and rule. This is something the politicos of today have no appreciation for, but I suspect the day of reckoning will come. We can only hope enough of us find a way to avoid a violent separation in favor of reconciliation, or an amicable divorce.

    Respectfully,
    O.A.
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 6 months ago
    The establishment people are usually so sure of their power to control people that they are blind. That's why they are so dumbfounded at the vote. I hope the same thing happens here and trump wins
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